Django Unchained

Christian McWhirter on Taking Lincoln and Django Seriously

by Kevin Levin on January 16, 2013 · 21 comments · Follow me on

in Civil War Culture, Civil War Sesquicentennial, Slavery, Teaching

I’ve been thinking about the gulf between the public’s response to Spielberg’s Lincoln and Tarrantino’s Django Unchained and the overall commentary coming from professional historians and other public intellectuals.  I’ve commented on this before, but this morning I was pleased to read Christian McWhirter’s review of both movies in The Civil War Monitor.  Actually, it’s [...]